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Lorelai left Gracie to rest as she went in search of all of the things that she thought that Gracie would need. Lorelai picked up her cell phone and dialed a number.

"Luke, I need your help."
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"Lorelai what is it," Luke asked on the other end of the phone.

"Gracie's sick and her temperature is 100.4. I need soup and blankets and anything else you can think of."

"Okay I'll be right over".

Lorelai hung up the phone and walked back to the Inn. She walked into Gracies room with the key that Gracie had given her. She walked in to see that Gracies was sleeping on the bed.

Lorelai walked over to the couch. She sat down and waited for Luke to get there with the things that Gracie needed. Gracie woke up about 5 minutes later. She couldn't really sleep because her stomach really hurt. She saw Lorelai sitting on the couch and smiled. At least she didn't send a nanny to take care of her like her parents did.

"Hi Gracie. How are you feeling?"

"Crummy."

"Luke's going to be here soon with soup and anything else that he could think of that would help you."

"Thanks Lorelai."

"Anytime kid."

Lorelai heard a knocking at the door. She opened the door to see Luke standing there.

"Thank you!"

"Your welcome. I brought soup, blankets, pillows, water and cheerios because that's what she ate last time she was sick. Oh and I brought tylenol."

"That's everything we need. Thanks Luke."

Luke walked over to where Gracie was lying down.

"How do you feel kid?"

"Like a piece of crap on burnt toast."

"That bad?"

"Ya"

"Let me take your temperature again. I just want to make sure it was right. 100.4 seems really high."

Luke took her temperature. Again, it came up as 100.4 degrees.

"Well I guess it's right. Take some tylenol. Hopefully, it will make your stomach feel better and your temperature go down a little."

"Thanks Luke."

"No problem."

Luke walks over to the couch where Lorelai is sitting.

"Is she going to be okay?"

"Ya she'll be fine. She just has a bad case of the stomach flu. It's nothing to worry about."

"I should probably call her parents to tell them that she's sick. Hopefully they'll come."

Lorelai walked to the front desk. She picked up the phone and called the Krumwaltz' number.

'Hello. This is Cynthia.'

"Hi Cynthia. It's Lorelai."

'Lorelai I was about to call you. I don't think that we're going to get there until Tuesday now. There's a function that I simply cannot miss.'

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Gracie's sick and she was wondering if you would come here sooner."

'How many times do I have to tell her that being sick doesn't mean that you need special treatment. Have her do things that she would normally do.'

"I can't make her do that. Her fever is 100.4 degrees. That means her body is fighting off something. She has the stomach flu."

'I have functions that I cannot miss. Tell Gracie that I'll see her on Tuesday. Bye Lorelai.'

"Bye."

Lorelai hung up the phone. She couldn't believe that she didn't care that Gracie was sick. That just goes to show how self-centered some people with money can be. She can name a couple more people who are like that.

Lorelai walked back into Gracies room and saw Gracie sleeping on the bed and Luke lying next to her.

"She couldn't get to sleep so I decided that lying next to her might get her to sleep."

"I see it worked"

"Yes it did."

"Thanks Luke. For everthing. It means a lot."

"Well I wanted to help. I couldn't just not do anything."

"Ya."

"So are her parents coming?"

"No they had 'functions' that they simply could not miss," Lorelai said trying to make her voice sound like Cynthias.

"Are you kidding me?"

"No. Those are the exact words that she said. She said that being sick doesn't mean you get any special treatment. She says that even if you have the stomach flu you have to do everything like you normally would do."

"But that would just make it worse," Luke protested.

"I know. But I wasn't going to say that to Cynthia. Who knows what she could have said or done."

"Good choice. But what are we going to tell Gracie. 'Sorry Gracie but your parents don't care that you're sick'?"

"I don't know. I don't want to hurt her. But there's really no easy way of saying that her parents don't care."

"No there isn't."

"That has happened to me on several occasions and I don't want it to happen to Gracie," Lorelai said.

"Someone told you your parents didn't care?"

"No. My parents told me they didn't care."

"Oh. That stinks. I can't imagine any parent saying that to their kid."

"I can. Trust me on this one. The world of money isn't that pleasant."

"I can see that now."

"Yup. I'm going to go home and check on Rory. Are you okay to stay here?"

"Ya I'm good."

"I'll be back."

Lorelai walked to her Jeep and drove to her house. When she got to her house she saw that Rory was studying in her room.

"Hey there hun."

"Hey mom. Where were you this morning?"

"Gracie called. She has the stomach flu. Her temperature is 100.4 degrees."

"Is she okay?"

"I think so. Luke said that she'll be fine."

"Luke's there?"

"Ya. I didn't know who to call. I didn't know if you were awake yet. The only person I knew who would be awake was Luke. So I called him."

"Okay."

"Okay. I just came here to check on you. I have to start heading back now."

"I want to come!"

"Let's go then!"
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A/N I hope you liked it! Please give me suggestions! I don't know where I want this to go yet and I would like to know where you want it to go! Thanks for reading!